Jan VilÃmek (german: Johann Vilimek; 1 January 1860 – 15 April 1938) was a Czech
illustrator
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and
painter
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.
VilÃmek was born on 1 January 1860 in
Žamberk
Žamberk (; german: Senftenberg in Böhmen) is a town in Ústà nad Orlicà District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,000 inhabitants. In lies on the Divoká Orlice river. The town centre is well preserved and is prote ...
,
Bohemia
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. He created many portraits of famous personalities from Bohemia and other
Slavonic nations. During the 1880s, these portraits were regularly published in magazines such as ''Humoristické Listy'', ''
Zlatá Praha
''Zlatá Praha'' (''Golden Prague'') was a Czech illustrated literary magazine. Founded by poet VÃtÄ›zslav Hálek, it was published separately from 1864 to 1865 before it was restarted again in 1884 by publisher Jan Otto, with Ferdinand Schulz, p ...
'' and ''
Světozor __NOTOC__
''Světozor'' ("Seeing the World") was a Czech-language illustrated magazine published in 19th and 20th century.
History and profile
''SvÄ›tozor'' was created by Pavel Josef Å afaÅ™Ãk in 1834. Å afaÅ™Ãk was inspired by the British p ...
''. In the 1890s, some of these illustrations were assembled into a book, ''České album''. He died on 15 April 1938 in
Vienna
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Jan VilÃmek - BedÅ™ich Smetana.jpg, BedÅ™ich Smetana
Bedřich Smetana ( , ; 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival." He has been regarded i ...
Jan VilÃmek - Jan Neruda.jpg, Jan Neruda
Jan Nepomuk Neruda (Czech: ˆjan ˈnÉ›pomuk ˈnÉ›ruda 9 July 1834 – 22 August 1891) was a Czech journalist, writer, poet and art critic; one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the "May School".
Early life
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Jan VilÃmek - Ignacy Jan Paderewski.jpg, Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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File:Jan VilÃmek - AntonÃn Dvořák.jpg, AntonÃn Dvořák
AntonÃn Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...
External links
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List of VilÃmek's portraits on Czech Wikipedia (incomplete, sorted by source, with links to digitized images on
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1860 births
1938 deaths
People from Žamberk
People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
19th-century Czech painters
Czech male painters
20th-century Czech painters
Czech illustrators
Czech expatriates in Austria
19th-century Czech male artists
20th-century Czech male artists
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